Nostr notes by Ian Dunt

Any retrospective application is intolerable, for anyone. It ...

2026-10-31T08:23:30Z

Any retrospective application is intolerable, for anyone. It contradicts natural justice and shows that Britain does not keep its word.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-... ...

2026-10-26T09:37:41Z

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

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Again, worth analysing Burnham as if he is really good at ...

2026-10-25T13:59:25Z

Again, worth analysing Burnham as if he is really good at politics: moving red lines from things EU can't accept (free movement) to things it might (euro). Changing terms of debate on an issue from negative (uncontrolled immigration) to positive (Brits can go abroad for work).

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget ...

2026-10-23T12:24:20Z

The fall in immigration is mutilating Healey’s Budget iandunt.substack.com/p/the-fall-i...

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Arguably not the most important issue today, but is this the ...

2026-10-22T14:36:43Z

Arguably not the most important issue today, but is this the first British prime minister with a tattoo?

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The hollowing out a priceless national asset, under a techbro ...

2026-10-20T13:58:23Z

The hollowing out a priceless national asset, under a techbro vandal. As with higher education, this type of move might be tolerable if there was *any government policy at all* on what the ultimate plan is. But there isn't.

Badenoch's position on Russian interference in the Brexit ...

2026-10-14T11:12:01Z

Badenoch's position on Russian interference in the Brexit vote is a patriotic disgrace really. Her view seems to be that because she approves of the outcome of the referendum, no-one can mention that there was very likely to have been foreign interference in it.

If I was a conservative, I'd be less concerned about liberal ...

2026-10-13T11:48:44Z

If I was a conservative, I'd be less concerned about liberal thought-control in universities and more concerned that educated people seem to have completely rejected my philosophy.

Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless ...

2026-10-08T11:47:05Z

Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.

Vaping could save millions of lives. The reason people hate it is ...

2026-08-28T09:30:45Z

Vaping could save millions of lives. The reason people hate it is because it is pleasurable, and some innate puritan part of their brain insists that quitting smoking should involve suffering
iandunt.substack.com/p/lost-in-th...

Lost in the cloud: How vaping ...

Don't wanna play comedy candidate favourites but I'm not ...

2026-08-14T17:01:23Z

Don't wanna play comedy candidate favourites but I'm not sure the Monster Raving Looney Party have ever made me laugh. Their existence is funny, but what they say isn't. Binface is a genuinely sustained high quality comedy bit.

Good moment to say something nice about Binface I suppose. The ...

2026-08-14T16:58:15Z

Good moment to say something nice about Binface I suppose. The thing is, he's really very funny. The whole thing would have worn out horribly if he wasn't. Just a genuine source of joy in an otherwise grey landscape.

Nigel Farage is falling apart. He's lost his mojo. ...

2026-08-14T15:20:52Z

Nigel Farage is falling apart. He's lost his mojo.

inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

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Farage has properly lost his touch. Old confident Farage would ...

2026-08-14T09:32:44Z

Farage has properly lost his touch. Old confident Farage would have known to play along with the Binface gag. New insecure Farage can't bring himself to do it. And that's why the headlines are about him staying away from the vote rather than the fact that he won it.

God help journalism if these people ever get into power ...

2026-08-11T20:09:00Z

God help journalism if these people ever get into power

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Richard Tice accused of ‘nasty...

Fucking fuck's sake man what in God's name is the fucking ...

2026-08-05T18:51:37Z

Fucking fuck's sake man what in God's name is the fucking matter with you?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kemi Badenoch gives former neo...

Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage ...

2026-08-03T08:03:42Z

Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage announcement on small boats only gets the third spot and is balanced by critics saying he's trying to distract from allegations over his finances. Quite the change from the uncritical coverage earlier this year.

Totally normal thing to do, nothing to see here ...

2026-07-29T17:14:40Z

Totally normal thing to do, nothing to see here

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Revealed: George Cottrell tran...

Burnham: "Social care in England is as unfair as American ...

2026-07-29T09:48:58Z

Burnham: "Social care in England is as unfair as American healthcare." It's a very good line.

It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming ...

2026-07-23T14:12:41Z

It's funny how no-one ever asks where the money is coming from when you announce a cut in immigration.

Watching Trump try to get into the World Cup photo, then shuffle ...

2026-07-19T22:45:12Z

Watching Trump try to get into the World Cup photo, then shuffle off because no-one was paying attention to him, was the perfect ending to this evening.

Cynical, scheming, boring and then - finally, inevitably - ...

2026-07-19T22:09:42Z

Cynical, scheming, boring and then - finally, inevitably - violent. Properly shameful operation which shouldn't be whitewashed by being called 'streetwise'.

Just briefly on that unbelievably stupid Falklands thing ...

2026-07-17T11:13:46Z

Just briefly on that unbelievably stupid Falklands thing iandunt.substack.com/p/football-e...

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What I know about football would fit on the back of a matchbox, ...

2026-07-16T09:25:59Z

What I know about football would fit on the back of a matchbox, but even I was screaming 'don't go deep with 30 mins to go against Argentina'.

Incredible: Nigel Farage declined offer of taxpayer-funded ...

2026-07-14T06:26:23Z

Incredible: Nigel Farage declined offer of taxpayer-funded security

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Nigel Farage declined offer of...

Things are starting to look very dark for Farage. He's stuck ...

2026-07-06T16:08:52Z

Things are starting to look very dark for Farage. He's stuck in a ferocious scandal where he cannot get his story straight and his excuses raise more questions than they answer

inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

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North London dog people: our dog-sitter, has a new website. I am ...

2026-07-06T11:44:19Z

North London dog people: our dog-sitter, has a new website. I am reluctant to say this because it is much more useful to us if she is always free, but Mahima is very, very good. Conscientious, warm, ultra-reliable. A delight.

www.mahimascaninecuddles.com

Home | Mahima

Corrupt, embarrassing, an utter failure: Trump's catastrophic ...

2026-07-03T11:15:15Z

Corrupt, embarrassing, an utter failure: Trump's catastrophic handling of America's 250th anniversary iandunt.substack.com/p/ice-ice-ba...

Ice, Ice Baby: America's natio...

I understand why Burnham will probably not want to undo all ...

2026-06-30T07:10:27Z

I understand why Burnham will probably not want to undo all Mahmood's actions at the Home Office. But leaving her in place puts his whole project in jeopardy. She will keep on pumping out this filth, alienating progressive voters, undermining support for the government.

It's funny, that moment where he fought away tears was the ...

2026-06-22T08:39:35Z

It's funny, that moment where he fought away tears was the most human we've ever seen him. A glimpse of the brutal personal reality behind these sorts of moments.

it's a graceful statement by Starmer, who is conducting ...

2026-06-22T08:37:41Z

it's a graceful statement by Starmer, who is conducting himself very honourably.

The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person ...

2026-06-21T13:46:39Z

The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.

I've been out the loop. Are you genuinely telling me that ...

2026-06-19T14:15:10Z

I've been out the loop. Are you genuinely telling me that Trump signed his surrender agreement in Versailles and that this really truly happened.

The joy today is that hatred lost. Doesn't matter what you ...

2026-06-19T13:06:28Z

The joy today is that hatred lost. Doesn't matter what you think of Burnham. Farage tried to invite a race riot. He dealt in explicitly racial rhetoric. If he'd won, many journalists would have considered it a vindication of his approach and branded our outrage evidence of how out of touch we are.

God I love this country. We're just so ridiculous. ...

2026-06-19T07:20:57Z

God I love this country. We're just so ridiculous.

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It'd be depressing at the best of times, but there is ...

2026-06-15T07:34:22Z

It'd be depressing at the best of times, but there is something profoundly inane about it when it comes from a prime minister who can't even drag himself off a social media site used to spread non-consensual porn and coordinate race riots.

I know this is hopelessly naive but I genuinely never thought so ...

2026-06-10T10:20:36Z

I know this is hopelessly naive but I genuinely never thought so many people would be comfortable using a website designed to help coordinate fascist activity.

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, ...

2026-06-10T09:14:37Z

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has ...

2026-06-02T08:08:32Z

In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. Time to give credit where it's due iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...

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This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans ...

2026-05-30T09:26:25Z

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it.

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

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John Major is a better former PM than Tony Blair will ever be ...

2026-05-29T11:25:26Z

John Major is a better former PM than Tony Blair will ever be iandunt.substack.com/p/john-major...

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The content is very revealing about the personality behind it: by ...

2026-05-27T06:09:24Z

The content is very revealing about the personality behind it: by turns amoral, trenchant, compelling, and heinous. Also: dated and unreconstructed. His comments on the US are stuck in the mindset of the 90s and don't reflect modern reality. He's become as dated and irrelevant as Jeremy Corbyn.

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not ...

2026-05-21T15:26:57Z

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

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Easing sanctions on Russia is a betrayal of Ukraine, a ...

2026-05-20T15:28:08Z

Easing sanctions on Russia is a betrayal of Ukraine, a relinquishing of Britain's leadership role and a complete failure of leadership

inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

Starmer letting Putin off the ...

Incidentally, Farage's threat to turn the by-election into a ...

2026-05-18T06:31:34Z

Incidentally, Farage's threat to turn the by-election into a Brexit fight is a thin threat. Brexit is the last thing he enjoys talking about.

The dynamics of a leadership contest make it very likely that ...

2026-05-16T18:15:34Z

The dynamics of a leadership contest make it very likely that Rejoin will soon be Labour policy. Be interesting to see how Burnham handles this issue in the by-election.

In so far as it has any policy content, it is internally ...

2026-05-11T09:36:30Z

In so far as it has any policy content, it is internally contradictory. He wants Britain "in the heart of Europe" but not actually in the EU or single market. He values diversity & fairness, but supports extreme anti-immigration policies which trap ppl in an administrative half life.

Probably the best debate I've heard about AI. Refreshingly ...

2026-05-05T13:53:21Z

Probably the best debate I've heard about AI. Refreshingly clear and reasonable pca.st/episode/9ff8...

James and Martin have a big fi...

If Starmer does a reshuffle after the local elections it'll ...

2026-05-01T14:36:35Z

If Starmer does a reshuffle after the local elections it'll be an admission that he's given up on even the pretence of effective government. An awful time to shuffle the pack again and reset everyone's specialist knowledge to zero, just as they're getting a handle on their department.

Proper meat-and-potatoes old school scandal. ...

2026-04-30T21:03:38Z

Proper meat-and-potatoes old school scandal.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exclusive: Nigel Farage was gi...

McSweeney: "We procured two strong candidate for [the PM]: ...

2026-04-28T10:42:04Z

McSweeney: "We procured two strong candidate for [the PM]: One was Mandelson and the other was George Osborne." Christ above. What did the weak candidates look like.

There's a lot that's wonderful in this piece but this was ...

2026-04-26T07:53:36Z

There's a lot that's wonderful in this piece but this was my favourite part

open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

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Orban is not conceding because he's honourable. He's ...

2026-04-12T19:39:07Z

Orban is not conceding because he's honourable. He's conceding because his defeat is so comprehensive even he can't pretend he won.

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated ...

2026-04-12T07:42:06Z

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

quoting
nevent1q…fyl8
Marathon talks? Compared to what? It took years for Obama to deliver a detailed Iran deal. The Trump admin are packing it in after 20 hours.
(H/T @bgrueskin.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy)

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Just a completely false, lazy binary. Why is the space ...

2026-04-11T20:55:24Z

Just a completely false, lazy binary. Why is the space exploration the one thing which can only proceed once we have built utopia? Why not novels, or music, or molecular research, or international travel?

That Trump post is a clear expression of genocidal intent. Clear ...

2026-04-07T12:18:36Z

That Trump post is a clear expression of genocidal intent. Clear cut case with zero caveats.

The royal visit to the US should not go ahead ...

2026-04-01T13:07:01Z

The royal visit to the US should not go ahead inews.co.uk/opinion/king...

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If you're not going to vote Labour over this in May, then ...

2026-03-31T12:55:19Z

If you're not going to vote Labour over this in May, then make sure the party knows that.Tell the canvassers when they come to your door, write to your local councillor and your MP. The government has U-turned before. It can do so again.

The mad emporer has triggered chaos he cannot control ...

2026-03-27T14:21:15Z

The mad emporer has triggered chaos he cannot control

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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We are starkly underestimating the impact of the closure of the ...

2026-03-27T12:30:57Z

We are starkly underestimating the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This is a much graver situation than people realise iandunt.substack.com/p/the-mad-em...

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So in summary: all that nonsense talk about young people suddenly ...

2026-03-26T19:09:11Z

So in summary: all that nonsense talk about young people suddenly turning to Jesus was nonsense and church attendance remains in long-term, near-existential decline. Still, they got nearly a year of utterly baseless headlines out of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Church attendance report pulle...

How Australia killed populism open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/... ...

2026-03-20T08:55:56Z

How Australia killed populism

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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This is outstanding by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk@bsky.brid.gy on the ...

2026-03-20T08:18:01Z

This is outstanding by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk@bsky.brid.gy on the weaponisation of irony and the need for radical sincerity

open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

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The whole thing is barren, vicious, immoral, small-minded, ...

2026-03-19T00:46:40Z

The whole thing is barren, vicious, immoral, small-minded, redundant. The product of an administration which is uninterested in improving the country but seeks only short term favourable coverage, which it cannot secure.

What is accomplished by forcing people to wait 10 years for ...

2026-03-19T00:44:41Z

What is accomplished by forcing people to wait 10 years for residency? Nothing. How does that improve integration, or public services, or the economy? It doesn't. How does it even pretend to treat people with dignity? It can't. How will it improve Labour's election prospects? It won't.

Who knew I could learn to miss the lies of the Iraq war era. But ...

2026-03-03T02:13:08Z

Who knew I could learn to miss the lies of the Iraq war era. But at least they were consistent. At least they could articulate what they were pretending to do.

I wonder what she'll think, when she's out of government ...

2026-03-02T13:03:05Z

I wonder what she'll think, when she's out of government in a few months time. Was it worth it? Persecuting refugees in order to satisfy an electoral strategy even she probably doesn't believe in. Pissing away the last dregs of your integrity for a plan which has already been shown not to work.

We have no "partners in the Gulf". Israel and the US are ...

2026-03-01T21:59:38Z

We have no "partners in the Gulf". Israel and the US are both de-facto rogue states which do not represent our values or share our interests.

Gorton and Denton results. labour comes third. Ouch. Greens: ...

2026-02-27T04:30:59Z

Gorton and Denton results. labour comes third. Ouch.
Greens: 14,980
Reform: 10,578
Labour: 9,364

Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is ...

2026-02-19T10:36:48Z

Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is meant to look like.

Outstanding. A triumph for liberty and against unrestrained state ...

2026-02-13T10:24:28Z

Outstanding. A triumph for liberty and against unrestrained state power. The government should be ashamed of having to be forced into this position.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UK ban on Palestine Action unl...

Mandelson was not just operating against his government's ...

2026-02-03T18:18:46Z

Mandelson was not just operating against his government's interests, but against his country's interests inews.co.uk/opinion/rot-...

The rot at the heart of Britis...

Badenoch's strategic genius on full display here, telling ...

2026-01-28T12:06:59Z

Badenoch's strategic genius on full display here, telling centrist voters to fuck off, including in the 60+ seats the party lost to the Lib Dems, so she can focus on competing with an extreme right party ahead of her in the polls.

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of ...

2026-01-26T13:04:53Z

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of ...

2026-01-21T20:01:58Z

Mark Carney has delivered one of the most important speeches of our era. There is a better future waiting for Britain if we dare to follow his example.

inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

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The only principled stance is to punish Russia into retreat: ...

2025-12-04T18:24:06Z

The only principled stance is to punish Russia into retreat: militarily, economically, diplomatically. Let the future imperialists see what becomes of invaders.

I will never understand why James Cameron decided the waste the ...

2025-12-02T19:24:39Z

I will never understand why James Cameron decided the waste the second half of his career making films about these godforesaken jungle smurfs.

Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world ...

2025-11-28T11:19:58Z

Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world iandunt.substack.com/p/budget-202...

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A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence: Labour has managed to ...

2025-11-14T12:00:50Z

A week of chaos, cowardice and negligence: Labour has managed to pack so many failures into a single five day period that it's becoming difficult to remember all the details iandunt.substack.com/p/a-week-of-...

A week of chaos, cowardice and...

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've ...

2025-11-06T07:22:46Z

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the Brit...

Barely a squeak from the usual suspects on the free-speech right, ...

2025-10-08T08:00:41Z

Barely a squeak from the usual suspects on the free-speech right, of course, but this amounts to the most serious assault on free speech in living memory. We cannot accept a situation where hundreds of non-violent demonstrators are being arrested every weekend.

UK right-wingers showing an increasing interest in anti-abortion ...

2025-06-02T13:57:14Z

UK right-wingers showing an increasing interest in anti-abortion rhetoric as US money starts to flood in - very interesting report from @petergeoghegan.bsky.social

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US anti‑abortion cash floods U...

Reactionaries hate universities because they create open-minded ...

2025-05-30T14:48:55Z

Reactionaries hate universities because they create open-minded liberated people open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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This is what it's like to live in a racist society. If the ...

2025-05-27T06:53:32Z

This is what it's like to live in a racist society. If the perpetrator is white, they're just some lone madman whose actions have no political implication. If they're an immigrant - in particular a dark-skinned Muslim immigrant - they represent their group and are part of a political attack.

I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the ...

2025-05-13T09:39:05Z

I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being ...

2025-05-12T08:11:49Z

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams ...

2025-05-11T05:29:33Z

This is outstanding on the vapid scientifically illiterate dreams of the tech overlord class

arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

Silicon Valley billionaires li...

The absence of trans people from the British media is part of the ...

2025-04-17T14:35:39Z

The absence of trans people from the British media is part of the problem. I'd like to offer mentoring to trans people trying to get into journalism, free of charge. Most of my experience is obviously in political commentary, but I might be passably useful in news and other areas.

Israeli soldiers murdered these medical workers, buried them in a ...

2025-04-08T08:49:25Z

Israeli soldiers murdered these medical workers, buried them in a mass grave, libelled them as terrorists and then lied about it. One of the ambulance crews' last words were: "I only chose this path because I wanted to help people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

BBC Verify analyses video show...

Oh look. So despite all the hand-wringing about Le Penn's ...

2025-04-07T05:27:54Z

Oh look. So despite all the hand-wringing about Le Penn's sentence and the insistence that it would trigger great surges of public sympathy, hardly anyone came to her sadsack protest www.politico.eu/article/mari...

Le Pen’s ‘Save Democracy’ rall...

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2025-04-03T12:45:24Z

America just did a Brexit.

Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French ...

2025-04-01T15:15:17Z

Quick reminder: Le Pen wasn't found guilty because the French courts hate democracy. She was found guilty because she broke the fucking law.

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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Effectively as a punishment for winning an Oscar, this ...

2025-03-26T06:53:48Z

Effectively as a punishment for winning an Oscar, this Palestinian director was beaten in front of his home. Instead of helping him, the Israeli army arrested him, blindfolded him and forced him to sleep under a freezing air conditioner www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Hamdan Ballal: Oscar-winning P...

Musk did not buy X to protect free speech. He bought it to ...

2025-03-24T09:02:30Z

Musk did not buy X to protect free speech. He bought it to promote the far-right. It is now being used to silence dissenters against authoritarian government.

www.politico.eu/article/musk...

Musk’s X suspends opposition a...

You never really forget your first style guide. No matter how ...

2025-03-13T12:41:35Z

You never really forget your first style guide. No matter how many years pass, its rules on caps will always seem natural to you and any deviation from them a kind of biblical perversion.

Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The ...

2025-01-24T12:41:48Z

Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...

How to resist the tech overlor...